Hair-puff device



l. W. STRAHAN.

HAIR PUFF DEVICE.

. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3. 1921.

Patented 9, 1922.

WITN58858 v v /04 MJTP/U-lfl/V lfl By M lv ATTORNEYS INVENTOR IDA WHALEY STRAHAN, OF MONTOLAIR, NIEW' JERSEY.

HAIRdUlEF DEVIGIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented May 9, 1922.

Application filed June 3, 1921. Serial No; 474,609.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Inn. firmxrnm, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and lm n'oved Hair-Putt Device, of which the 'lollowing is a full, .-l.ear, and exact descri p t ion.

My invention relates to a toilet article and. aims to provide what is known. as a hair putt device or base.

It is a well appreciated fact that various expedients have been resorted to to form puffs. Thus, what are known as rats have been utilized at a point at which a putt was to be tin-med, the wearers hair being; drawn over this member and producing the desired effect.

Various other expedients have also been resorted to in the :torming of puffs, such as that oil' rolling the strands of hair into a compact shape and in pulling other strands of hair over the same, thus again produclng a pufll. I

All ol. these methods have offered objections in that primarily the putts of dead hair or the rolling of even live hair into a compact mass has been more or less detrimental to health, aside from the fact that it has been necessary to either utilize or term the same while dressing the hair.

Thus my present invention aims to provide a device by means of which. putts may be termed, which device will be extremely simple in construction, and capable of being manufactured at a nominal figure, and wl'iich will also be capable of being; placed. in position upon the head of the wearer alter the hair has been dressed.

A. hu'ther object of my invention is the construction of a device oi? the character stated, which when in use will permit of the production of perfect putts but which will not in the least be detrimental to'the health of the wearer.

With these and other objects in view reference is had to the annexed specification taken in connection with the drawings, Wl'lltfll latter present one practical embodiment oi? my invention, and in which;

lligure l, is a side view of head, and sl'iowing in dotted lines the application. of my improved type of hair puflt' device.

Figure 2 is a plan view 01 this device, and l igui'e 3 is a side view thereof.

it will. be seen that the device is somewhat in the nature of a hair pin, the legs of which are elongated, the body being bent in. a uniform manner. Thus the reference iiun'icral 5 indicates the legs of the pin which are bent, as at 6, to provide curved portioius, prelmal'iljv subdivided into smaller bent portions 7, tor a purpose hereinalter specified.

The body oi the device is bent substantially intermediate its extremities 8, so as to form these two legs, and the inner ends of these legs extend outwardly from the bend 8 and divert, as has been indicated at 9. The end of these latter portions of the legs merge into the inner face of the curved portions 6.

ln use, when it is found that the hair lies too flat against the head of the wearer, this portion of the hair is parted, preterablv with the left hand. The puff device is then grasped by the right hand, the body oi the same being covered with the palm, the ends of the two legs being between the thumb and index finger. The device is inserted into the part in the hair while its poi. ions are in this position, and the ends o the legs are caused to assume a position at which they will lie adjacent to the scalp. The device may now be released and the hair smoothed over the same resulting in the lii'iished appearance illustrated in ure fl.

It is to be noted that it the device re leased theends of the legs a will. tend to s'g'iread, and this will obviously serve to loclr the entire device in position, it being noted tluit by virtue oi. the rigid portions formed by the heiufls "i" that a rest will be provided tor the strands of the hair, which rest will also reduce the danger of the hair becominp; accidentally displaced from the device and uncovering the same.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a hair putt device by means of which all of the objects set forth in the preamble of this specification are accomplished, aside trom the :lact that the wearer would feel no emharrassment even it the device should be come visible in that the same has the apiiearance ot a hair pin. Furthermore the device is extremely light in contradistinction to devices hereto'tore provided for this purpose, and it will also be understood that nun'lerous modifications of structure might wardly throughout a part of their length, said body portion being bent at a point substantially intermediate its extremities, and presenting substantially straight side 1301- tions, the outer ends of which form continuations of the inner ends of said legs.

IDA VVHALEY STRAI-l AN. 

